Twilight's Last Gleaming

1977 PG-13 2h 26m

6.5 / 10 77

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A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most trusted advisors.

Director Robert Aldrich

Writers

Ronald M. Cohen Edward Huebsch Walter Wager

Stars

Burt Lancaster Roscoe Lee Browne Charles Durning

President David T. Stevens

Joseph Cotten

Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State

William Klinger - Attorney General

Gerald S. O'Loughlin

Brig. Gen. O'Rourke

Richard Widmark

Gen. Martin MacKenzie - Commanding General SA

Ralph Whittaker - CIA Director

Charles McGraw

Air Force Gen. Peter Crane

Morgan Paull

First Lt. Louis Cannellis

Simon Scott

Gen. Phil Spencer - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

State Trooper Chambers

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Geronimo1967 4 Jun 2023

7/10

40-odd years on, and this still has a certain resonance about it even now. Burt Lancaster in a disgraced US Air Force General who, along with two colleagues, escapes from jail and takes control of an active nuclear missile silo with 9 deadly missiles at his disposal. Richard Widmark, his former commanding officer is now on the opposing side as they play a cleverly constructed, well paced and genui...

John Chard 22 Mar 2020

8/10

Gentlemen, we are now a superpower. Twilight's Last Gleaming is directed by Robert Aldrich and collectively written by Ronald M. Cohen, Edward Huebsch and Walter Wager (novel "Viper Three"). It stars Burt Lancaster, Burt Young, Richard Widmark, Roscoe Lee Browne, Joseph Cotten, Charles Durning, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Jaeckel and William Marshall. Music is by Jerry Goldsmith and cinematography...